Collaborate Disseminate
Chinese social media giant WeChat is screening documents and images shared by overseas users, according to researchers from the Citizen Lab of the University of Toronto. As of late 2019, the messaging app is said to have had more than 1 billion active … Continue reading WeChat is Surveilling International User Files to Strengthen China’s National Censorship Model
Vietnam’s controversial cybersecurity law that tightens government control of the online environment just came into effect on Jan. 1 and it’s already claiming its first victim, writes the Financial Times. On Tuesday, the communist country a… Continue reading Facebook Accused of Violating Vietnam’s Cyber Law
In a hearing with the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai kept saying the company has no plans right now to launch a search product in China. But that response leaves plenty of room to launch when it does want to. Continue reading Google CEO Says No Plan to ‘Launch’ Censored Search Engine in China
President Erdoğan’s crackdown on voices of dissent is expanding to the internet. Continue reading Turkey Has Blocked Wikipedia and Is Censoring Twitter
As usual, online censorship seems to have a “Streisand effect” for tools that allow netizens to circumvent blocks. Continue reading Turks Are Flocking to Tor After Government Orders Block of Anti-Censorship Tools